{"id":7782,"date":"2014-12-04T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2014-11-29T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:42:21","slug":"laura-mckee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/laura-mckee\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura McKee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the absence of your love here comes the science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and I am thinking about you<br \/>\ntouching me<\/p>\n<p>but I know it can never really happen<br \/>\nfor scientific reasons<\/p>\n<p>since your fingertips here<br \/>\nare just these whorls of atoms<\/p>\n<p>iron filings in a random fling<br \/>\nlinger as if something is meant<\/p>\n<p>between us<br \/>\nintangible things<\/p>\n<p>electromagnetism<br \/>\nand this heat is called transference<\/p>\n<p>we think we can feel<br \/>\nbut we\u2019re pushing each other away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura McKee<\/strong> started writing poetry a few years ago, by mistake.\u00a0 Her poems have appeared in journals and zines including<em> Aireings, Other Poetry, Obsessed With Pipework, Fake Poems.<\/em>\u00a0 In private, she enjoys twerking and drawing Captain Haddock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This poem was first published in <em>The Lake<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the absence of your love here comes the science and I am thinking about you touching me but I know it can never really happen for scientific reasons since your fingertips here are just these whorls of atoms iron filings in a random fling linger as if something is meant between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}